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Miscellaneous Forums => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: LimitBreak on 2009-01-20 01:04:50
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This is something I've always wondered about. I don't have this problem now, but back when I first got the game I had a measly Windows 95 computer. The game ran perfectly well except for one thing. At the Observatory when Bungehen explains the lifestream and all that, right when his CGI thing finished but right before the other character's commented, my game just stopped. I could run around the simulation and speak to my two other characters who all had unique lines, but I could not progress the game. I uninstalled, reinstalled, tried all different combinations of characters, but nothing worked. Figuring either the game my computer was just whacked, I gave up. About a month later I went to visit my uncle who also had a PC (it was a nicer one, but still ran Win95), installed the game, copied over my save file (remember floppies? I do), and lo and behold right when I expected the game to come to a halt, it continued on. I didn't get a chance to run around and converse with my comrades, but I was able to get the hell out of that place. I saved, copied to a floppy, and when I got back home I never had another problem with the game.
Does anyone know why this happened? When I ran around and talked to the characters they all had unique stuff to say (except Bungehen - my experience with adventure games immediately brought to my attention that maybe you have to directly on some obscure pixel to move forward, so I wasted so much time just tapping on that key and moving positions, trying to talk to him). This was such a weird error and I have no idea what could have caused it and as long as I've been in front of a computer (unfortunately) this is my biggest "WTF?!" moment.
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I don't want to sound like I'm dissing but...
Why is this so relevant that worthy it's own new topic?
I mean... you don't have this problem anymore... so... why bother?
I read your entire history and when I finally got to the end I was the one who said "WTF?"
All players here had some kind of issues playing this game... when we all have the SAME issue is reported as a BUG...
But when you have a unique issue that just happens with you... it's probably misconfiguration or corrupted files due to whatever reason... I doubt that back then you even tryed to reinstall the game in your pc.
Anyway, don't get angry at me... I'm just... trying to understand why it would be so relevant now.
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It's not really, I'm just wondering. It's something weird that I never figured out, and since the party members all had unique dialog it made it even more weird.
I did reinstall. I hardly had any disk space back then so I was constantly uninstalling and reinstalling games because I couldn't hold more than one or two on my computer at a time.